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by madair 17y ago
There was no punishment. Delayed gratification is quite a different beast. I think this is a critical point.
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by madair 17y ago
Duh, I just repeated what jodrellblank said, more or less. Oops.
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by madair 17y ago
He gave his 75% answers. The readers of this article will have their own 75% answers, and if they don't, then his are just fine for the demographic. It's pretty smart really, and subtle. They are not my answers, but that's very far from bei
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by madair 17y ago
Me too. It really shook me to the core when it suddenly turned up dead since I found it such an interesting read, and I couldn't understand what seemed to be arbitrary deletion. I guess I gotta read more about HN works and why such things c
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by madair 17y ago
I think some citations would be in order.
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by madair 17y ago
Early in the interview he announces, "If I could use two words to describe what it is that I enjoy it is that I love to be sneakily outrageous", and then a few paragraphs later he says as a matter of fact, "I usually spend energy 'turning o
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by madair 17y ago
LOL, FAIL!
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by madair 17y ago
Reminds me of The Practice Of Programming, by Kernighan and Pike, a truly excellent book. They cover some of the bum steers of C efficiency quite well there. A classic.
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by madair 17y ago
Besides, that's just changing the argument, it's pretty dumb to think they don't have great product ideas too, lol, e.g. Microsoft Research? But then we get into that happy place where there is no new idea under the sun. After all, we can t
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by madair 17y ago
All I did was quote what he said. The paragraph is about ideas. If he meant product ideas I would hope he would say so, but no, he includes "Page rank, text-only ads, massive parallel implementation on cheap hardware" in the brief bit of Go
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by madair 17y ago
He lost me at "[Microsoft] has never had a single brilliant idea in its entire history". Criticizing the company is one thing. Pointing out the flaws fine. Anger at bad behavior fine. Even laughing at dumb mistakes, that's not gonna rile me
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by madair 17y ago
I guess Newsweek doesn't realize the irony of a porn 'cop' wearing an old school hacker mag t-shirt :-) Excellent. The dude gets props from me. I hope his coworkers realize the awesomeness of sneaking that into the photo and buy the drinks
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by madair 17y ago
I had really horrible experiences with Amex, but on the opposite side, as a small business owner. In my opinion (libel zone here) they purposefully squeeze very small businesses, as a matter of policy. American Express came very close to si
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by madair 17y ago
LOL, a favorite like 37signals does something so egregiously wrong, is reported, and there's plenty of security 'experts' to say no big deal. This is a HUGE deal, and thanks to the OP for pointing it out. And you call yourselves experts. No
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by madair 18y ago
And I seriously think I should get some karma love for that saying. Damn that's good.
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by madair 18y ago
That said, I personally like that these stupid and outdated IP controls help spur diversity. Every time a copyright lawyer farts, a new indie band is born.
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by madair 18y ago
There are technical paths that contain solutions, but you gotta give a little, take a little. This is not a technical nor bandwidth problem as much as it's a intellectual property problem, mainly the fact that it's still stuck in the pre-In
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by madair 18y ago
I'm aware I lost the thread of my own point about the Hindu temple analogy and turned it on its head instead, hopefully the two points mumbled there are apparent, because I think they both apply, but yeah, I'm a dumbass ;-)
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by madair 18y ago
I am not weighing in on the original matter, I have not seen the presentation, and living in the United States, I'm very aware that the level of prudishness in this country means one person's porn is another person's string bikini. However,
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by madair 18y ago
Yes I did, and I noted mainly a fear of fear of global warming. Perhaps this concerned scientist would really rather the public not think about it too much?
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by madair 18y ago
Ummm, it's an opinion page, selected by the editorial staff.
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by madair 18y ago
Fair-warning, this IS a WSJ article, and thus should be well-salted when it comes to their editorial stance on the facts in question.
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by madair 18y ago
Agreed. Looking at the source it's easy to see why this article is a major fail: Wall Street so desperately wants us to believe that this was all the fault of the poor people with bad loans they shouldn't have had. It's pretty funny how the
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by madair 18y ago
The difference is that it takes one good typographer to create a font. It takes a whole high school to keep Gnome screwed up.
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by madair 18y ago
It takes a little bit of study and I was put off at first, but then it became very interesting. He's communicating quite a lot with each path, it just takes a moment to get used to. It looks to me like it will become second nature. Nice wor
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by madair 18y ago
How about "because they can't". And don't give me some tripe about special non-GPL features. What matters about MySQL, ALL that matters about MySQL... IS GPL!
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by madair 18y ago
If you want to see startup revolution as the norm, just go to Asia. I'm sure Paul Graham has seen the scale of small business across the Mideast, China, Southeast Asia, for that matter the whole world, I just haven't been to South America s
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by madair 18y ago
People are so gullible to believe a troll saying "I did it". Spend 15 minutes catching up on any military conflict and you'll quickly find that any unconventional attack has several groups claiming responsibility. It's just how it goes. And
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by madair 18y ago
I wasn't intending to troll the middlemen. I think it's fairly accurate to say they are the least productive members, they didn't produce the work we're discussing at all. Of course they produce value, and do so in various ways. Butin this
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by madair 18y ago
Props to the original poster for updating the HN link to go to the Topato page.

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